What’s Happening: Between Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s clubby earworm of a score, the dirtbag-prepster dichotomy of Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, and Zendaya’s sheer star power, the film of the summer is supercharging tennis’s ties to the fashion economy.

The Download: It’s been a big year for the tennis-fashion industrial complex: back in September, then-19-year-old phenom Coco Gauff won the women’s final at the U.S. Open. In March, Gauff went on to cinch her first Vogue cover, a radiant Annie Leibovitz portrait that captured the athlete aglow in a gold sequined Michael Kors Collection cocktail dress. Later that month, Zendaya embarked on the press tour heard ‘round the world to promote her starring role in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. On red carpets from Monte Carlo to Milan, the actor donned a flurry of vintage, sporty looks from On and Ralph Lauren, archival Thierry Mugler, and glittering Loewe numbers.

Last week, Zendaya walked the red carpet to end them all at the 2024 Met Gala. Amid her dizzying spring press tour, the 27-year-old dropped her latest Vogue cover for the fashion book’s May issue and was named co-host of the gala, whose “first Monday in May” timing followed Challengers’ U.S. premiere by exactly two weeks. Is it coincidental, then, that this year’s event broke its own fundraising records to the tune of $26 million? Probably not. The opportunities afforded to “cover-only” talents like Zendaya are, at their core, business decisions—even co-hosting fashion’s biggest party of the year.

Consider that in the wake of the Challengers premiere, Google searches for “tennis skirt outfit summer” skyrocketed by 138 percent according to Pinterest Trends; “adult tennis lessons,” by comparison, surged by 245 percent on Google. Not to mention that J.W. Anderson—whose founder, Jonathan, is the creative director of Loewe, which sponsored the gala—just so happened to drop its Uniqlo collab with Roger Federer this week, following the gala by only three days. Other labels have taken note, too: milliner Eugenia Kim jumped into the ready-to-wear game with her Love line of tennis wear ahead of summer, and French-Moroccan label Casablanca made the sport the focus of its 2024 resort collection.

In Their Own Words: As much as she inhabits the simmering intensity of a tennis protegé-turned-coach, Challengers transformed Zendaya into a face of the sport she merely had a passing interest in before assuming her first starring role: “Serena and Venus—that’s all I connected to,” she told Vogue. “And probably Roger Federer.”

Surface Says: In the eyes of some film buffs, Challengers scores closer to love than a winning four points, but even they can’t deny the “Euphoria effect” of Zendaya’s megawatt status.

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Gergei Erdei found early success as a ready-to-wear designer and embroidery illustrator on the womenswear team at Alessandro Michele’s Gucci, where he cultivated a bombastic yet sophisticated style tempered with references from antiquity. Since then, the fresh-faced Londoner has been busy crafting his own universe of one-of-a-kind objects that continue to turn back the clock. His newly launched Objects of Desire series encompasses a capsule of six exquisite folding screens that he hand-painted with surrealist scenes of Greek and Roman deities using dry brush techniques to evoke the allure of ancient frescoes.

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In his first solo exhibition with Fridman Gallery—and on the heels of his feature in the Brooklyn Museum’s “Giants” exhibition—the painter zeroes in on the “emotional landscapes” invoked by the Caribbean’s azure glow, which was the inspiration for the body of work on view.

Here, we ask an artist about the essential details behind a recent work.

Bio: Jerome Lagarrigue, 50, Brooklyn.

Title of work: Shellfish Picker.

Where to see it: Fridman Gallery, New York.

Three words to describe this work: Misty, moody, blue.

What was on your mind at the time: A feeling of open space. Painting is very meditative for me. The process of creating these paintings is a sense of liberation from everything. It’s me at my studio often inspired by the movement of waves along the Red Hook shoreline.

Rosewood Hotel & Residences hosted an exclusive, invitation-only Langosteria pop-up on May 2 and 3 to celebrate the Miami Grand Prix and the coming return of The Raleigh—the iconic South Beach hotel being refashioned into a Rosewood Hotel and Residences by developer Michael Shvo. It’s also the future home of Langosteria’s first location in the U.S. The Milan-based restaurant group will open its doors at the Raleigh Beach Club in 2026 in the anticipated Peter Marino-designed property.

The oceanfront VIP dinners included guests such as Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali, Related Group founder and chairman Jorge Pérez, Surface CEO and Dorsia founder Marc Lotenberg, Moncler scion Pietro Ruffini, art collector and Andy Warhol muse Jane Holzer, architect Kobi Karp, fashion designer Naeem Khan, Bank of America global chairman John Utendahl, celebrity real estate broker Oren Alexander, and others.

Dedon’s story begins with a pioneering idea and an inspired vision. The idea—to create handwoven furniture using a sophisticated synthetic fiber, weather-resistant and aesthetically refined—revolutionized the outdoor market. The vision of outdoor living rooms furnished with the same attention to looks and comfort as those inside the home has changed the way we live outdoors, enabling people worldwide to enjoy life together under the open skies.

Surface Says: Dedon’s architectural, hand-woven outdoor furniture wins our heart for its sense of whimsy. From its suspended loungers inspired by nests to the Rilly Collection’s cocoon-like pool chairs, the brand’s distinctive lens stands out.

The U.S. is breeding a new generation of avocado eaters and enthusiasts.

Landscape designers are starting to work around water-sucking turf lawns.

This AI artist reimagines The Simpsons as a deeply uncanny ‘50s sitcom.

AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has seen before—and may not work.